With the general availability - eGA completed 5/24, GA on
6/4 - of the new release 11.70.FC5 of both, the Informix Server and the
Informix Warehouse Accelerator, a set of new functionalities was
implemented for the accelerator:

Partition Refresh:

Refresh data quickly without reloading the whole data mart. By using
the new functions dropPartMart() and loadPartMart(), you
can drop and load a specific partition of fact tables in an existing
data mart. With fact tables in the warehouse database fragmented, this
can save a lot of time when only some fragments of the fact table have
changed data to be propagated into the data mart.

Integration with Informix MACH11:

High-availability secondary servers of an Informix MACH11
environment can now be used to accelerate queries and to administer
data marts, including the loading of data marts. Secondary servers are
perfectly suitable for dealing with the rather static data in data
marts. By connecting secondary servers to the Informix Warehouse
Accelerator, you have greater flexibility in a mixed-workload
environment, leaving primary servers free to exclusively handle OLTP,
thus increasing the availability and the throughput for all the
servers in the high-availability cluster.

Support for more SQL functions implemented:

LEN, LENGTH : length of a character value.

SUBSTR, SUBSTRING : substring of a character value.

TODAY : current system date.

TRIM : remove specified leading or trailing pad characters from a string.

YEAR : four-digit year of a DATE or DATETIME value.

UNITS : specify the time unit of a DATE or DATETIME value.

New options for session environment use_dwa:

The use_dwa session environment now includes new options for
controlling accelerator related aspects of client connections to the
Informix database server. You can now specify settings for a
particular session, control whether queries are run by the Informix
database server if they cannot be accelerated by Informix Warehouse
Accelerator, and specify an output file for debug/trace
messages.